Battelle Licenses Vivisimo Clustering Products for Evaluation Within NASA Programs.Business Editors/High-Tech, Aerospace/Defense & Government Writers PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2002 Vivisimo, Inc., a global provider of advanced document clustering (automatic categorization) software, announced that the Battelle Memorial Institute The Battelle Memorial Institute is a private not-for-profit applied science and technology development company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. The institute opened in 1929 but traces its origins to the 1923 will of Ohio industrialist Gordon Battelle which provided for its has licensed Vivisimo's clustering products under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), (NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. ). Vivisimo's Clustering Engine and Enterprise Publisher will be used for clustering search results and larger document subsets from aviation safety textual databases managed by NASA and others. The clustering software is expected to help analysts recognize key patterns within the safety reports. "The federal government, like any large organization, recognizes the need to make sense out of unstructured textual data, but is daunted daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin by the expense of humanly organizing it. We are pleased that our products were chosen to accelerate the expert insights that are obtained from these vital national aviation databases," stated Raul Valdes-Perez, President of Vivisimo, Inc. "The hardest part of the Vivisimo installation was downloading the software! Within 15 minutes I had converted one of the examples to use our data source. I was amazed to see my first clustered results. Several days later I had completely integrated it into our existing application," said David Richardson David Richardson may refer to:
About Vivisimo, Inc. Vivisimo, Inc. provides intelligent software that dramatically improves how enterprises manage and categorize textual information. Vivisimo's unique document clustering software employs proprietary technology to organize content automatically from one or many sources. This dynamic approach allows for rapid integration and categorization of content and significantly improves end-user access to relevant information. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Vivisimo was founded by research computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . Offices in London and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden also serve its global client base. Visit http://vivisimo.com for online live demonstrations. About Battelle Memorial Institute Battelle serves industry and government in the areas of technology development, laboratory management, and technology commercialization. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital and the largest city of the American state of Ohio. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. , Battelle has annual revenues of $1 billion, has operations at more than 100 locations and clients in 30 countries. It counts as its successes the development of the office copier machine (Xerox), pioneering work on the compact disc, medical technology breakthroughs, and fiber optic advancements for telecommunications. For more information visit www.battelle.org. |
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